Burma: UN called on to approve an arms embargo on Tuesday

The UN General Assembly is called on Tuesday to approve a draft non-binding resolution providing for

of the transfer of arms to Burma and its military leaders, we learned at the United Nations on Sunday.

Initiated by Liechtenstein, with the support in particular of the European Union, the United Kingdom and the United States,

at 19h GMT, a spokesperson told AFP. word of the Organization.

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According to diplomats, approval by consensus is not achieved, in which case the Assembly would proceed to a vote.

The challenge will then be to garner as much support as possible among the 193 Member States of the General Assembly.

In negotiation for weeks, the text is co-sponsored by 48 countries in Europe, America, Africa, a single country, South Korea, representing Asia in this group.

Non-binding unlike Security Council resolutions but with strong political significance, the text provides for

. He calls on the Burmese military authorities who took power on February 1 during a coup

and

. He also calls on them

President Win Myint and civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi, as well as all those arbitrarily detained.

The project also calls on

the plan towards a return to democracy drawn up by the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN),

, banned from entering the country until now, and allowing

The demand for an arms embargo is a long-standing wish of several dozen NGOs.

At the Security Council, which unanimously adopted since February four declarations on Burma, each time watered down by China in particular, the idea of ​​adopting such a measure, which would probably entail a veto from Beijing, did not never been advanced.